On 1 July 1941, 160 notables and leaders of the community, including Rabbi Isacsohn, were imprisoned for three months in the main synagogue. On 2 July, after the Iași pogrom, the “death train” from Iași to Călăraşi stopped in Roman. Viorica Agarici, president of the local Red Cross, defied the interdictions; she had the cars opened and brought water and food to the survivors. The dead from the train were buried in the local Jewish cemetery. Agarici was subsequently awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Almost 1,000 Jews from Roman were sent to forced labor in remote towns. Some 250 went to Floreşti, Sihna, Predeal, Măcin, and Baldovineşti. In April 1944, as the Soviet army approached, 1,000 Jewish refugees from Pașcani and 1,400 from Târgu Frumos arrived in Roman. Jewish deportees from Transnistria who could not return to their towns also came here.

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How many were living in the city from 1945 – 1948? In 1947, there were 7,900 Jews living in Roman.